this thread shows a silent enclosure i haven't seen before . another article in the same thread references the listing of the same enclosure on a german site that also shows its dimensions . it's 100x140x30mm. silentdrive, according to directron.com , is 6.5" x 5.5" x 1.5" (165x140x38mm). without t...

Have you had any luck physically making the hard drive quieter? not yet. because silentdrive enclosure will not fit in the case, i will next be trying to use sorbothane to line inside and out the metal enclosure holding the drive to dampen the high frequency squeal. this machine is currently runnin...

As to how to use it actually. I normally mount /tmp on tmpfs /tmp /tmp tmpfs defaults,auto 0 0 and then just soft link the files I need (like ln -s /tmp/log /var/log). mount shows /dev/hda6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw...

i finally got the silentdrive enclosure and got around to trying to fit it in. unfortunately, the case simply doesn't accomodate it! :( in morex 2699, even when stripped off of all external metal parts, it needs perhaps 1/4" more space to fit. it can't get into the case because the motherboard gets ...

I fully plan on geting a WAN-type router. I was looking at Netgear's FR114P , specifically. this is probably a fine router for most applications. none of the inexpensive commercial solutions fit my needs, unfortunately, because i need to have dual-WAN routing with static route tables to make sure t...

Anyways, I was wondering if there was anyway to stop the hard drives until I needed them. i've been dealing with a similar problem and started a thread to solicit suggestions . you should experiment with noflushd and use hdparm to aggressively manage the spin-down of the drives. so far i have been ...

this forum is about silent pcs, and when i undervolt my celeron, my pc is silent b/c there are no fans, no PSU fan, no CPU fan, no system fan, no vga fan, only the high-pitch whine of the western digital HD. i agree. you have built yourself a fine near-silent system and i am sure that when you repl...

dan wrote:[...TISU temperature sensor lies....]

but does that really matter? if you touch the CPU heatsink and it doesn't feel painfully hot, it's probably under 55'C. if it doesn't get hotter than that, it shouldn't matter if the sensor lies.

while googling for "debian tmpfs mount" i found a description of a much better targetted appliance build than what i have: no disks, just 32MB of flash. given that a 256MB CF card costs $50, i think it's reasonable to be a bit more profligate with the configuration than this guy had to be a year ago...

Check out the use of tmpfs . You could make a disk if you have enough memory to put all the files normally accessed thorugh /var and /tmp onto. Makes for way less accesses. i sort of understand the use of tmpfs, but not how to use it with /var and i am not sufficiently familiar with the logging asp...

currently my video card is the matrox G450. doesn't support DVI though. matrox is a fine card for a 2D desktop. some of the newer, more powerful matrox cards have DVI and are fanless. however, matrox isn't known for competitive performance levels on 3D games. not sure what the Prime95 test is. as m...

The Prime95 is mathematical test, searching for Mersenne prime numbers - if you are not a math geef, forget this prime95 verifies that the chip does what the chip is supposed to do when it performs complex operations. dan said he uses excel, which suggests that he'll have some math operations perfr...

i've had no stability problems. everything works fine. when i first tried undervolting my quiet machine's CPU, i dropped CPU voltage from the default 1.575V to something very low, don't remember how low (it may have been as daring as 1.2V). windows booted. on advice from these forums, i ran prime95...

Hey grandpa_boris, just another comment here... When fitting the SilentDrive in the case, while it can be helpful in some situations to remove the side brackets in a SilentDrive enclosure (the ones that are attached with screws), I wouldn't recommend also removing the main brackets (i.e. the 'metal...

Do you have noatime set in your fstab? /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime i will now :-). that should help with access to cached inodes. i expect that realistically, the system should almost never look at the disk. even with some memory stolen by the video chipset, it leaves 483MB for the system use...

Have a google for noflushd, a daemon which prevents flushing to disk, and allows the drive to shut down. Apparently it works best (only?!) with a non-journalled FS, such as ext2. i have noflushd installed. i don't think it has had substantive effect, since i do have ext3 on /. the disk turns off, s...

I've never used that Morex case, but is there any way you could place a SilentDrive enclosure in it? i looked up the dimensions of the silentdrive enclosure, 6.5" x 5.5" x 1.5". i suspect that includes the side-brackets. You can also remove the metal brackets from the SilentDrive enclosure, resulti...

mpteach wrote:All the overclocking sites recommend burning in Ram so it think there is something to it.

the idea is probably to make sure that the RAM is capable of handling the overclocking or the timing regime without errors, rather than make it capable of it.

my new fanless system is an EPIA-M in a morex 2699 case with a 2.5" laptop drive, seagate ST94011A. it's running debian linux and serves as my firewall/NAT/DHCP and whatever else i'll pile up on it in the future. being fanless, it's dead-silent -- except when the disk drive is on. the system has 512...

Im still trying to find some in the 600MB-1GB range for a project Im working on. Are there only certain types that run at that speed? does this have to be an external "drive"? or can you simply use NVRAM? you can get 1GB and smaller battery-backed PCI NVRAM boards from micro memory . i think they h...

Although I love the fit and finish on those Hush dealies, the cost is just more than I can deal with. I'd go with a Chili Professional case and a well thought out rig before I'd bother with a Hush, but I suppose if I had money to burn.....;) what is the Chili Professional case ? i had found your pr...

It was announced in early fall & reported by SPCR here: Hush ATX: P4 & AGP in stylish silence any thoughts on how quiet it is likely to be? as quiet as the mini-ITX version? ATI 9800 is listed as one of the options and i wonder how well it will do cooling something that big. (my quiet system's vide...

what screen would the higher image quality of the Matrox be noticable on? Would a really high resolution screen be needed or would a regular LCD, HDTV, or CRT produce a difference? my experience with matrox cards has been on 1600x1200 and larger CRT desktops. i found matrox's text character generat...

sapphire makes several ATI based videocards with passive heatsinks. one notable one (and it's on my list of possible upgrades) is a 9800 pro card with a zalman heatpipe. newegg has them . reviews i read say it is likely to overheat if it doesn't get enough air flow. that isn't surprizing and should...

i found several on-line retailers selling this case, but while some of them mention the "optional heatpipe", none of them sell it. the price of the barebones system without the heatpipe is US$170 and up. asus' site doesn't offer any helpful info either...

Is there a way to "fix" my grounding problem? before you try fixing anything, does this happen with any other set of speakers? like the dirt-cheap crappy ones that computer shops sell for "$0 after rebates". i have a strong suspicion that this is something very broken in your speakers, not in your ...

Really? I'm always annoyed by the general hum/buzz of speakers when not in use, tell me more about how the digitals are different. you aren't asking me :-), but in my experience digital connection to the speakers removes the noise component that comes from the thermal noise in the chipset on the so...

Maybe my house just isn't properly grounded. that's entirely possible. i was unable to use a surge supressor or a UPS on my systems in my old house because the power wiring wasn't grounded. but it's also possible that you have an unshielded input on the speakers that is simply picking up the the in...

Right when i powered them up, i realized they have loud buzzing. I don't know if this is normal or because of some kind of interference. Anyone know if this is normal? first of all, it is not normal . as you said yourself, this isn't a hiss of the amplified thermal noise. it's buzzing. every time i...

There is no Win2000 workstation, the single-user version is called "Windows 2000 Professional". you are right. i had forgotten that it ended up becoming win/XP. Again, AFAIK the drives will work just fine independently for RAID1 arrays. Same applies to my Promise card: I can pull out a drive, and u...